Mostly Woodwinds Week
Course Number: MU ED 497A
Dates: June 30–July 3, 2008
Times: 9:00–11:00 a.m., 12:15–2:15 p.m., 2:45–4:45 p.m.
Credit: 24 hours of instruction = 2 credits, or 24 Act 48 hours
Location: TBD
Enrollment: cap 60; estimate 15
Materials: A notebook containing materials for each of the instruments, compiled by the workshop faculty, will be distributed. The estimated cost is $25 (which needs
to be sent to Conferences and Institutes).
Description: This workshop will offer hands-on small-group instruction emphasizing fundamental performance and teaching techniques for flute, oboe, clarinet,
saxophone, bassoon, and French horn. You will receive four hours of instruction on each instrument. Bring each of these instruments with you to the workshop—please bring a
double horn. You should contact Daryl Durran if you require the use of a university instrument.
Guest Artist
Emily Hoppe McKay is an assistant professor of flute at Northern Arizona University, principal flutist of the Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra, and a member of the
Kokopelli Chamber Winds. Formerly, McKay served as an associate instructor in flute and as a Chancellor’s Doctoral Fellow at Indiana University, where she performed with the
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Columbus (Indiana) Symphony Orchestra, and the Indiana University Summer Music Festival Orchestra.
McKay has recorded as the piccoloist of Philharmoia à Vent on the Klavier Records label. She is an active recitalist, and her recent collaborations include concerts with guitarist
Espen Jensen at Indiana University and the Waldron Center for the Performing Arts in Bloomington, Indiana. She has presented master classes at Penn State, Elizabethtown College, and
Tyler Junior College (Texas). McKay is an active member of the National Flute Association (NFA) and served as the assistant program chair for the 2006 NFA Convention in Pittsburgh and
as a researcher for the NFA Grant Writing Committee.
Prior to her experience in Indiana, McKay served as an associate instructor in flute at Elizabethtown College and York College of Pennsylvania, and as an interim instructor in flute
at West Chester University. She performed with the Harrisburg Opera Association, Lancaster Opera Company, Gettysburg Chamber Orchestra, Altoona Symphony Orchestra, and Penn’s
Woods Festival Orchestra, and as the featured soloist of the American Wind Symphony Orchestra.
McKay has served on adjudicating committees for the Music Teachers National Association performing competitions. She has presented workshops for The Pennsylvania Music Educators
Association and is published in American Music Teacher, The Flutist Quarterly, and Flute Talk. She is a graduate of Penn State and Carnegie Mellon University, and is currently working
to complete the doctor of music degree in flute performance and music literature at Indiana University. Her teachers include Thomas Robertello, Jeanne Baxtresser, Alberto Almarza,
Jeffrey Khaner, and Eleanor Duncan Armstrong.
Penn State Faculty
For complete faculty bios, visit www.music.psu.edu/prospective/faculty.html.
Tim Hurtz, associate professor of music, teaches oboe, coaches wind chamber music, and serves as oboist with the Pennsylvania Quintet.
Prior to his appointment at Penn State in 1993, Hurtz served on the faculty at Illinois State University, where he taught oboe and was a member of the Sonneries Woodwind Quintet. He has performed with the Chicago Symphony; Los Angeles Philharmonic; the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra; the San Francisco Opera and Ballet; the Joffrey Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet, and American Ballet Theatre orchestras; the Santa Fe Opera; Mannheim Steamroller; and Hollywood recording studios. He has given recitals and clinics across the United States and in Europe and Japan. From 1978 to 1981 he was principal oboe with the National Opera of Mexico City and taught at the Mexican National Conservatory of Music. For ten years he was principal oboe with the Illinois Symphony Orchestra, the Illinois Chamber Orchestra, and the Peoria Symphony Orchestra.
Smith Toulson, professor of music, teaches studio clarinet and is clarinetist with the Pennsylvania Quintet. He received his degrees from the University of Illinois and Yale University. He presently serves as principal clarinetist of the Penn’s Woods Festival Orchestra, the Pennsylvania Centre Chamber Orchestra, and the Nittany Valley Symphony.
In addition to appearances with the Pittsburgh Symphony and the New Haven Symphony, he has appeared in concerts at the National Gallery, Washington, D.C., at the Waterloo Festival (New Jersey), and in New York’s 92nd Street YMCA concert series. Toulson can be heard on recordings with Crystal and CRI labels.
David Stambler, assistant professor of saxophone, has established himself as a dynamic teacher and musician throughout the United States, performing both jazz and classical music. He is active as a recital and symphonic soloist and as an “on-call” saxophonist with many orchestras, including the Baltimore Symphony, the Annapolis Symphony, the Bay-Atlantic Symphony, the National Gallery Orchestra, and the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra. He has performed at the JVC Jazz festival, the Princeton Jazz Fest, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Kennedy Center, and has accompanied many of the top entertainers in the world today. His premieres include November by Elam Sprenkle with the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, Dos Movimientos by Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez with the Bay-Atlantic Symphony, and compositions by John Harbison, Gunther Schuller, and Michael Colgrass through the World-wide Concurrent Premieres and Commissioning Fund. Stambler has recorded with the Baltimore Symphony, the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, and the Capitol Quartet, and can be heard playing clarinet and saxophone on dozens of nationally broadcast radio and television commercials. As tenor saxophonist and arranger with the Capitol Quartet, he performs frequently in recital venues and with symphony orchestras nationwide.
Daryl Durran, associate professor of music, teaches bassoon, coaches wind chamber music, and is bassoonist with the Pennsylvania Quintet. He joined the School of Music faculty in 1983.
Durran holds degrees from the University of Arizona and the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee. Prior to his appointment at Penn State he served as principal bassoonist of the Milwaukee Ballet Orchestra and the Waukesha Symphony Orchestra, and was a frequent performer with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. In addition, he has taught at the National Music Camp (Interlochen, Michigan) and the American Band College (Ashland, Oregon).
Durran performs as principal bassoonist of the Pennsylvania Centre Chamber Orchestra and has been a member of the Festival of Two Worlds Orchestra in Spoleto, Italy, and the Britt Festival Orchestra in Jacksonville, Oregon. For nine seasons he was principal bassoonist of the Penn’s Woods Festival Orchestra. As a chamber music player, he has appeared in concert halls throughout the United States and Europe. He is an active member of the International Double Reed Society, regularly offering presentations at the society’s conferences.
Lisa O. Bontrager, professor of music, is director of the Penn State Horn Studio. She has performed as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States and in Europe and Japan. Bontrager is currently active performing, touring, and recording with Millennium Brass, the Brass Band of Battle Creek, the Pennsylvania Quintet, and MirrorImage, a horn duo with colleague Michelle Stebleton. As soloist/clinician for Holton Horns, Bontrager has been featured at the Mid-West Band and Orchestra Clinic, New York Brass Conferences, the New England Brass Conference, and a number of international conferences of the International Horn Society. For six years she served as an elected member of the advisory council of the International Horn Society.
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